Senior Canadian Legislator Tables Bill to Jail People Who Speak Out in Favour of Fossil Fuels
A leading member of a Canadian centre-Left party supporting Justin Trudeau’s minority Government has tabled a bill seeking to jail people who speak out in favour of hydrocarbon fuels. Charlie Angus is a leading member of the NDP party which has 25 seats in the Canadian Parliament, and his bill seeks to ban the commercial promotion of hydrocarbons by any means “that is likely to influence and shape attitudes, beliefs and behaviours about the product or service”. Angus’s bill (C-372) is given the Orwellian title of ‘An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising’, and under this proposed anti-free speech measure, a gas station retailer could be fined C$50,000 for offering a complementary coffee and doughnut with every full tank.
There is not much between Canada and the North Pole so without natural gas to heat their homes, the locals would likely die in their thousands during the winter. Without diesel trucks to transport food vast distances, famine would stalk the land. Yet Bill C-372 states in its preamble that “fossil fuel production and consumption has resulted in a national public health crisis of substantial and pressing concern, in a way that is similar to the public health crisis caused by tobacco consumption”. Smoking cigarettes is a voluntary and enjoyable pastime for some, but it has the unfortunate side-effect of causing death. Hydrocarbons keep people alive with power for clean sanitation, transport, domestic temperature control, food production and back-up for unreliable wind and solar power. Without hydrocarbon use, the only people able to live in most of Canada would be Eskimos huddled together for warmth in igloos.
Under the bill there is a blanket ban on the promotion of oil and gas. A curious clause bans the suggestion that the burning of some hydrocarbons and the emissions caused are “less harmful” than other fossil fuels. This provision would make it illegal to state the scientific fact that burning natural gas produces less than half the carbon dioxide than the burning of coal. It would also be an offence to suggest that the use of hydrocarbons would lead to positive benefits for the environment, the health of Canadians and the global economy. Whatever the facts based in science or economic observation, all these ‘wrong’ thoughts can be punished with a C$500,000 fine and two years in prison.
The bill’s attack on hydrocarbons is broad and even attempts to suppress sales at the retail level. Gas stations will be banned from issuing loyalty cards, cash rebates, tickets to prize draws and free gifts such as coffee and doughnuts.
If this was just the work of a lone parliamentarian green crank, it would be easy to laugh and dismiss. It is a private member’s bill and will struggle to be passed into law, but its promoter is a major figure in the NDP, and his party currently holds political sway since it helps prop up the minority Trudeau Government. “We welcome the NDP’s bill to the House,” said Kaitlin Power, the Press Secretary of Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. Speaking to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she added: “We will carefully assess its bill and look forward to productive debates and discussions around this important issue.”
The NDP bill is an attack on free commercial speech and seeks to demonise an industry that is vital to modern life. The belief that Canada, along with every other modern industrialised society, can remove hydrocarbon energy use within less than 30 years is a luxury, decadent affectation. It is the work of politicians with little understanding of science and the workings of a modern state. It fails to comprehend that life without hydrocarbons for 99.9% of people who have lived on planet Earth was hard, brutal and uncertain. Without reliable cheap fuel, all that ‘first generation to go university’ stuff will be replaced by working the land of the local warlord, or skivvying in his great house. It is the work of badly educated people who think they can outsource all their vital manufacturing to the emerging superpower of China, open their borders to all and sundry and squeeze the living conditions of existing residents, abolish traditional families, bend the knee to defund the police, or impose so many woke conditions they are unable to function properly, ditto external security services.
It is the belief system of a cult that wants to impose a massive supra-national programme of deindustrialisation, and still peddle the fantasy that we will magically stay warm, delicious food will be available at the press of an iPhone, and everyone will live in peace and harmony. It is the belief system of people who live in Imagine, one of the great John Lennon’s sillier songs.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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This Satanist should be forced to live by their own morality. If he attempts to survive winter in Canada without fossil fuels this evil person would die, the world would then surely be a better place.
A ‘right Charlie’ you might say.
Quite right of course – but why “This Satanist should be forced to live by their own morality”? “….his own”?
Considering this as the belief system of a cult is quite reasonable.
These people have no more rights in the world than anyone else, they only have a stronger will or are being directed by a stronger will.
Crowley’s “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” is commonly referred to in a negative sense as if everyone exerting their will is a psychopath. All those who refused mask mandates and vaccination essentially followed this law but not to the detriment of others so it should not necessarily be seen as negative but you can’t have a general population that understands, or appreciates, the power of their own will.
I would suggest that when we hear of anything “rules based” being touted by politicians, underlying this is “do what thou wilt”. That explains the contradictions where these rules are imposed on others and broken by those imposing them.
Indeed, the Covid resistance was more accurately following the Wiccan Rede: “An it harm none, do what ye will”. That is, they followed their will, but NOT to the detriment of others, despite the Branch Covidians calling them “granny killers” and “plague rats”.
If you serve God, you will normally obey the laws of a country. However, if said laws ask you to do things that are against God’s law then you have to follow God as best you can.
I didn’t refuse the Covid jabs or to wear masks because I wanted to assert my own will but because I deeply mistrusted what I was being told and believed that I had a higher responsibility (to God) to safeguard my body (which essentially belongs to God) for his service. In the case of masks, I actually believed that wearing them was demonic or occult and so could have nothing to do with them. It’s not my will that’s important; I pray that God’s will be done.
I find it frightening that someone can be so misguided and, well, so stupid. It defies belief really. What else can one say?
“Misguided” is to put it very politely.——The human trash that would imprison someone in this manner should not be allowed anywhere near government. The sad reality is that this imbecile is not alone.
He is a politician. As such, he wants to exercise power over others, but is unable to do so in the capitalist world, where he would have to be a smart and knowledgeable businessman (at least partly). So he resorts to the political system of our so-called democratic societies, where he is guaranteed a good salary, a life-long pension and lots of additional niceties. He only has to succumb to the ideological trends of the time, which is easy to do if you have neither morals nor intelligence.
Yep
“Please show me all of the bank statements of you and your party of the last 15 years.”
People don’t typically do outrageously stupid stuff that’s going to harm others without a very good reason. As state-driven, that is, taxpayer funded command economy project, Net Zero will easily dwarve Corona and there are, minus the morons like Hollywood celebrities, a lot of really rich people on this planet who really want to get all this money, especially as they can afford to isolate themselves from the consequences on their private islands and in similar locations.
Indeed, “Net Zero” should really be shortened to “NERO”.
What are they putting in the water in Canada?There must be a rational explanation for the widespread lunacy exhibited by Canadians for selecting their rulers.
What are they putting into the water in your place so that you’re still convinced that the so-called western democracies are controlled by their respective electorates?
Did I say that? I don’t think I did.
I think you did when you claimed that Candians, ie, the Canadian electorate were selecting their rulers.
Are you alleging that there was sometning wrong with the Canadian electoral system beyond the stupidity of the voters?
Monty Python had the hang of those Canadians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZa26_esLBE
In the cause of freedom
If you look at the Canada Veterans web-site it states;
”Over 45,000 of our brave men and women in uniform gave their lives and another 55,000 were wounded. The Second World War was a pivotal chapter in our country’s history.”
They died in the cause of freedom, to oppose the lies tyranny and propaganda of the likes of Josef Goebbels. Now like a latter day Goebbels in sheep’s clothing we have people like this chap coming along and supposedly for our own good, suppressing freedom, dictating what we can say and do and punishing anyone who disagrees with him. Goebbels would have been delighted with such a move.
I would like to think that the Canadian Veterans association would, in the name of freedom and in remembrance of the fallen, have come out in opposition to this move. However, such is the situation with most institutions these days, that I doubt they will say anything.
Indeed, today’s propagandists would be akin to Goebbels with a gerbil shoved where the sun don’t shine!
Such a weird world we are living in. So many stupid and/or corrupt people in influence and power.
What does it say about the huge number of those who unthinkingly and habitually vote for them?
Dont, that’s an even worse thought!
Imagine if you were condemned for praising a food that feeds 80% of the world, or if you praised a medicine that cures 80% of the world? People would consider you either insane or evil. ————Fossil fuels provide 80% of the worlds energy and without them we would be back in the stoneage. To condemn someone for praising those fuels is both “insane” and “evil”. —————In the phony world of pretending to save the planet all based on ideology for its leaders and blind faith for their followers that superglue themselves to buildings, there is nothing they would not do to bludgeon the enemy into submission. If they cannot defeat you with science, and if they cannot defeat you with propaganda, and if they cannot defeat with subsidies and coercion then all that is left is the climate gulag.
The whole world is beginning to experience what it feels like to hold minority beliefs and be tyrannised by the majority.
Wolves and bears are being reintroduced in Colorado by urban majorities (e.g. Denver) against the wishes of those in rural communities who actually have to live with them. Smallholders in Britain are no longer allowed to hunt problem foxes killing their poultry.
The only difference here is that the tyranny is being conducted by a minority.
Majorities being tyrannised by minorities do not always take matters into their own hands.
I will be voting Reform. It’s not much but it’s something.
“not confident in their story” ———And what a tall tale it is. The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to be believable, truth does not.
It’s not a belief system; the only thing they believe in is that they, and the people they serve, should rule.
It’s a deliberate plan to control their population by controlling the three main means of life: food, water and energy. And it’s being imposed across the advanced western economies …. just the pace of the imposition varies slightly.
More proof that we’re not just dealing with a scam but a sick twisted malthusian bourgeois cult who would happily see millions die at the alter of their luxury belief system.
“Without reliable cheap fuel, all that ‘first generation to go university’ stuff will be replaced by working the land of the local warlord, or skivvying in his great house.”
In other words a return to Feudalism.
It’s about time those writing for DS started to make this observation more frequently. As I have repeatedly stated the aim is depopulation, more correctly genocide and enslavement for the survivors. There is no need to pussy foot around reality – say it how it is.
“fossil fuel production and consumption has resulted in a national public health crisis of substantial and pressing concern, in a way that is similar to the public health crisis caused by tobacco consumption”. Smoking cigarettes is a voluntary and enjoyable pastime for some, but it has the unfortunate side-effect of causing death.
I’m afraid but smoking does not cause death. Nobody ever died directly from smoking a cigarette and the well-known German chain smoker Helmut Schmidt, a former chancellor of Germany, died at the age of 96 due to post-surgical complications. Further, to date, all non-smokers have died as well. Is it really possible to look at this double-ended bullshit statement without realizing that these are the same people seeking to fool you in the same way (Horribly terrifying smoke !! Going to kill us all !!!) in both cases?
How about he goes to Jail !
Heads on spikes is the only effective countermeasure for such organisms, I won’t refer to it as a functioning human.
Excellent article by Chris Morrison. The Canadian legislator’s bill is just jaw-dropping insanity.
It’s clearly patterned on the early successes of the anti-smoking campaigners who also started with outlawing advertising a fairly long time ago.
A very good article, as always from Chris Morrison. How disturbing that such evil illogicality can find any fertile ground anywhere.
Surely the only reason to “welcome the NDP’s bill to the House” is to be able to ridicule it out of existence.
You can smell the desperation as their next transfer of wealth fails – they’ve already started the wars, pandemics…goodbye cabal, you had it good for long enough.
Tne NDP are not the centre left in Canada, they are and always have been the left. Increasingly they are dominated by the far left.
Drop the centre nonsense.
where is the Global Bill for Lying Politicians!????
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is very extremist in his pursuit of his Green agenda and ideology.
For instance gas-powered vehicles will be banned from being sold in Canada in 2035, with a few exceptions.